Enjoying The Fourth Of July
The days are long and warm. The kids are full of energy. Everyone is wearing red, white, and blue. Delicious smells are coming from grills. The sunsets are magical and colorful. The fireworks are lighting up the sky. People everywhere are happy. It’s America’s Birthday!!
This week, we’ll discuss the history of the United States and how we came to be a country. How the founding fathers knit a country full of different cultures together to make America what it is. We’ll go into detail about each state as it joined the US. The good and bad of everything. How our particular culture helped shape the US into the US and why it’s not discussed openly.
We’ll go out as a family to see fireworks from a distance.
I’ve always loved watching the colors explode in the sky. My oldest loves fireworks as well. I’m not sure if my youngest likes them yet. I may grill. It’ll be my first time grilling, but I think I’m ready. I’ll have Pizza Hut’s number on standby.
Independence Day is another name for the Fourth of July. On July 2, 1776, inside the “United Colonies” in Philadelphia, the Second Continental Congress declared the colonies as the “United States” with the passage of the Declaration of Independence.
While Congress took the Declaration of Independence and debated and revised the wording. They decided to remove Jefferson’s denunciation of King George III. Thomas Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence although it underwent over eighty changes.
Congress approved it two days later on July 4th.
Interestingly enough, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, the only two men who signed the Declaration of Independence and served as President both died on the same day: July 4, 1826.
